1980 - Summer Olympic Games in Moscow USSR. Leonid Brezhnev opens the Olympic Games. USA No 1 - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me Billy Joel. UK No 1 - Xanadu - Olivia Newton John.
1985 - More than 260 are feared dead after floods at an Italian holiday village.
1989 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive
1986 - UK No 1 - Papa Don't Preach - Madonna. USA No 1 - Invisible Touch - Genesis.
